Gain Insight with Business Intelligence and Business Analytics: Combining business intelligence tools Like Tableau, Qlik Sense, and Power BI with our data warehouse services, raw data can be analyzed using dashboards and visual analytics to give you insight into your historical, current, and predictive views of your business operations. Being able to share business analytics, monitor progress of initiatives, and discover opportunities facilitate better strategic decisions.

Increase Sales Productivity: Tracking, collaborating and managing each order efficiently help increase sales productivity as real-time information is centralized with WoodPro InSight. Inventory and direct sales (back-to-back), order processing, point of sale (POS) transactions, e-commerce, customer portals are all supported. Multiple unit conversions (BF, LF, SF, M3, MBF, CLF, MSF, CU FT, Random Length, Random Width), competitive pricing, customer sales history and pricing information (ie. price lists, history, effectivity dates, formulas), freight costs, discounts, costs of each order, and profit margins are readily available.

Real-Time Point of Sale Transactions: Facilitate real-time transactions with barcode scanners and merchant debit and credit card terminals. Payments made by cash, on account, or by credit cards are accepted. The touch screen, keyboard, and mouse interface are available for simplified use.

Customer Service Capabilities: Take orders, inquire about item availability, prices, discounts, purchase history and status of an order to provide exceptional service and support to customers to build customer relationships.

Retain Customer Loyalty with Membership: Strengthen relationship and retain customer loyalty by rewarding them Customers with Air Miles on their purchases.

Schedule Transportation: Inventory transfers, sales, and purchase orders are linked to the Daily Route Planning function, allowing you to schedule shipments, trucks, and charge delivery costs for external freight companies to each transaction in one place. The system also interfaces with UPS Worldwide and other courier companies.

Order Online at Your Convenience with Customer Portal: Online e-commerce can be done with our customer portal option for business-to-business transactions. Members can login to view inventory in real-time, place on account orders, receive Air Miles, look up purchase history, check the status of the delivery. WoodPro can also work with your provider.

Make Better Strategic Decisions: Critical information concerning the company's business is conveniently summarized in real-time in the Executive Summary Module: sales, inventory, receivables, payables, cash flow, financial statements, and key performance indicators (KPI). InSight also works with flexible Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Tableau, Qlik Sense, and Power BI with our data warehouse services. Raw data can be analyzed using dashboards and visual analytics to give you historical, current, and predictive views for making better strategic decisions.

Reduces Transportation Costs: Facilitates sales orders and cargo consolidation by location, order splitting, routing, mode and carrier selection to reduce transportation.

Make Better Sourcing Decisions: Enables intelligent sourcing decisions by calculating accurate landed costs.

Reduces Administrative and Support Costs: Trade and transport data is centralized and easily shared, so that administrative and support costs can be reduced.  

Handles Multiple Currency Conversions: Converts to any currency desired instantaneously to facilitate global transactions.

Enhances Customer Service: Generates business alerts to help reduce delays and ensure shipments stay on track and thus, improve customer service.

High Volume Processing: Improve ability to efficiently handle high volume during peak seasons.

Handles Variety of Reman Activities: Different types of reman activities can be handled. They include resawing, planing, specialty drying, cut-stock, blanks, structural wood members, milling activities, custom processing and more. Automatically calculates outputs in multiple units of measure (pieces, board feet, square feet, package or unit sizes, random lengths/random widths tallies) as you cut lumber to length, rip it to width, resaw it for thickness or plane wood to finished dimensions.

Optimize Remanufacturing Process: The Bills of Materials (BOM), Assembly templates, Reman and Production templates reduce data entry time. Work In Progress (WIP) functions help maintain and track the costs of work order products and materials to increase production throughput, provide information to help you find ways to reduce costs, and meet demands. Fixed rate and standard costing techniques streamline labor and overhead costing and reporting for products manufactured in high volumes, where it is difficult to precisely synchronize material, labor, overhead and other subsystems to the actual production receipts.

Improve Stock Management: Generates recommended production orders based on a combination of Sales Orders demand and Inventory Policy to minimize overstock of materials and products.

Tracks Production and Sales: Tracks all inventory movements from the original receipts of logs and lumber, through production issues, production receipts, transfers and finished product sales. This information can be used to identify bottlenecks so that productivity can be increased. Weighted Average, Standard Costs, and Specific Identification Costs methodologies calculate costs in near or real-time rather than after the fact at period end.

Centralize Inventory Control: Provides a central place for collections and management of items in the item master maintenance, while inventory location helps you identify and avoid costly inventory shortages and meet demanding production schedules.

Tracks and Manage Manufacturing Costs: Calculates and tracks costs as lumber moves through your production process, including the assignment of overhead and other cost factors.

Tracks Production Yields: Tracks bi-products, co-products, and fall down waste yields.

Improve Operational Efficiency with WoodPro’s Integrated Warehouse Management System (WMS): WMS improve operational efficiency by enabling you to automate and manage in real-time your inventory control, shipping (order fulfillment) and receiving (production and purchase order receipts-keep), and stock taking in production facilities and reloads. Warehouse Management is supported through industry standard hardware (Ruggedized PCS, Ruggedized Tablets, Handheld Wireless Scanning Devices and Specialty Printers).

Handle Manufacturing Process: The Bills of Materials (BOM), Assembly templates, Reman and Production templates reduce data entry time. Work In Progress (WIP) functions help maintain and track the costs of work order products and materials to increase production throughput, provide information to help you find ways to reduce costs, and meet demands. Fixed rate and standard costing techniques help streamline labor, overhead costing, and reporting for products manufactured in high volumes, where it is difficult to precisely synchronize material, labor, overhead and other subsystems to the actual production receipts.

Simplify Inventory Management: Simplifies the generation of new item numbers through the item generator. The item numbers can be used to track hardwood and softwood products, as well as panels, veneers, custom milling, moulding, laminates, and plywood in a variety of Units of Measure that is specific to each product line. On-hand, in-transit, and on-order supply and demand is automatically calculated. Costs and pricing across multiple locations, customers, and suppliers can be managed as well.

Allow User-Defined Inventory Policy: Users can define essential information regarding production lead time, vendor lead-time, preferred vendor, reorder point, batching mode, and safety levels that affect inventory according to manufacturing branch or location.

Improve Operational Efficiency with Warehouse Management System (WMS): WoodPro’s integrated WMS improves operational efficiency by enabling you to automate and manage in real-time your inventory control, shipping, receiving, production and purchase order receipts, and stock taking in production facilities and reloads. Warehouse Management is supported through industry standard hardware (Ruggedized PCS, Ruggedized Tablets, Handheld Wireless Scanning Devices and Specialty Printers). Tracks items, tags and their related costs from vendor receipt, air drying, kiln drying, and other production processes through to their final destinations.

Increase Connectivity and Visibility: Shop Floor Control (SFC) and Routing Systems track, schedule, and report on the progress of operations to help increase connectivity and visibility among staff members. Production is tracked through Resource Centers at various levels of granularity. Work Orders and Repetitive Manufacturing environment can be scheduled better, while progress is reported through Production Performance Metrics.

Facilitate Manufacturing Costing: Facilitates tracking and categorization of the value of inputs and outputs in production as rules-based accounting and costing formulas can be assigned as items move in and out of inventory.

Increase Sales Productivity: Tracking, collaborating and managing each order efficiently increases sales productivity as real-time information is centralized with WoodPro InSight. Inventory and direct sales (back-to-back) order processing, multiple unit conversions (BF, LF, SF, M3, MBF, CLF, MSF, CU FT, Random Length, Random Width), competitive pricing, customer sales history and pricing information (ie. price lists, history, effectivity dates, formulas), freight costs, discounts, costs of each order, and profit margins are readily available.

Reduce Costs with Mills Direct Sales: Mill information is also available for customers who require a specific grade from certain mills. Inventory can be sent directly from reload facilities or from sawmills directly to customer. This saves overhead costs associated with having your own inventory in a warehouse facility.

Real-Time Accounting: A unified data model provides a single accurate, real-time view of all your accounting information, including general ledgers, accounts receivable, accounts payable, bank reconciliation, and financial statements. Data details can be seen through drill down capabilities, inquiry functions, and detailed reports for strategic cost analysis.

Speed Up Order Fulfillment: To speed up order fulfillment, a pick ticket/pull card can be conveniently printed, faxed, or e-mailed to warehouse or reload staff members for picking and packing. Printed orders can be easily confirmed to invoices. Other documents such as Gross Margin Prep Sheets, Custom Invoices, and Dispatch Tickets can all be generated with a few clicks.

Handles Softwood and Hardwood Lumber Tallies: Below are five examples of how WoodPro handles them.

1. Softwood Tally Calculator with Options for Tally Type
2. Tally Calculator Using Pieces/Pack Size
3. Forecast Tally Calculator with Recommend Selling Prices Based on Random Length Price Table and with the Ability to Predict Future Availability
4. Hardwood Lumber Tally (Random Widths and Random Lengths) Using Piece Counts
5. Hardwood Tally Using Layers with Mill Quantities and Calculated Quantities by Layer

Screenshot: Forecast Tally Calculator with Recommend Selling Prices Based on Random Length Price Table and with the Ability to Future Availability

Manage Inventory: The supply of goods, whether treated or purchased (green), has to track demand as closely as possible. Inventory Control provides all the necessary tools and information to enable you to manage and minimize your investment in stock and depot resources and provides a high level of service. The system instantly provides the details against the different statuses of a product, while controlling the number of new part numbers created. It allows you to see all the information without having to look at separate part numbers—saving you time, but more importantly giving you a 360-degree view of the item.

Provides Wood Treatment Scheduling: The scheduling process for wood treatment is streamlined such that greater visibility is provided. The schedule can be generated for different Types: Regular, or TSO. Treatments can be generated for different Tags of different dimensions, either by selecting the Individual Tags, a Range of Tags, or All Tags.

Generates Recommend to Treat: This option provides the ability to generate treatment lists and subsequent purchase orders and treatment orders. It indicates whether the necessary Green is available and is used in conjunction with the Recommend to Purchase option, which recommends the various Green(s) to be purchased based upon requirements. Recommendations can come from an Inventory Policy, or a specific demand from Sales Orders.

Calculates Costs Automatically: Costs are automatically calculated based on treatment.

Supports TSO Orders: The processing and scheduling of Treatment Service Only Orders are also supported by the system.